I like the rack idea, especially when it holds more than you have, because it is an excuse for buying more….....very nice, glad the oculars are functioning…......

I don’t have room for a rack, although I do have a spot for mine. Slowly adding to the collection. Once I am nearly all mobile…........you know…....about 2 years from now….......maybe I could have a mobile rack…...

...........but then I would have to design it in Sketchup, and make it original and different and…......

It’s slap-together, for sure, but … there’ve been some additional problems with my corneas, so … I was really just glad to be building … anything :-)

True woodworkers, it seems—parTICularly professionals—might, can, should, will, or often … make their shop bits with the same attention to detail that they’d use to make furniture.

I think that’s a good idea.

We’re told to evaluate a car mechanic based on cleanliness and order in his/her shop—in part. It DOES say something about the kind of work they might do.

But I’m a woodworking country bumpkin, and … slap-together scrap works just fine :-)

And … Andrew: thanks. Exactly. When I was thinking it through, I thought …. what the HECK are the angles I have to miter, here.

That’s when I remembered old Thomas Pykary, incidentally—my high school geometry teacher.

I looked him up. He’s been dead for 25yrs. IF he were alive, though, he would be 95 years old.

Okay. NOW I feel older than dirt LOL!!

Anyway, I Googled “Online Protractor,” printed it out, CUT it out, and used IT PLUS my math skills to figure out the angle. I used my CMS to make the cuts, but … if you think about it … the LENGTH of the boards was at right angles to the CMS’s fence.

To those who commented about expansion room …. that was a coin toss. I KNEW it would be cheaper if I built it tighter ;-)

Now I see more room, and …. I just KNOW that’s going to cost me :-)

My walls are still concrete. If I ever get to a place where I can “finish” my shop, I may convert this. Floor space is never unlimited.